Snatched from Oblivion: A Cambridge Memoir

By Marian Cannon Schlesinger

Book Overview

Marian Cannon Schlesinger's memoir of growing up in an academic household in Cambridge, Massachusetts, tells the story of a community and way of life which have virtually disappeared. Her account of... This description may be from another edition of this product.

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0316773484
• ISBN13: 9780316773485
• Release Date: September 1997
• Publisher: Little Brown and Company
• Length: 243 Pages
• Weight: 0.95 lbs.

Customer Reviews

A delightful discovery

I picked this book on a whim while on vacation at the beach--I'd been having a tough time getting through entire books once the school year had ended (I teach college)--this book was a delightful antidote to all that-- The author's sense of humor and attention to telling detail in her evocation of family life in the early part of this century was interesting, entertaining and informative--The characters (from the famous scientist Pavlov to her father's maiden sisters who lived with the family and carved out careers when women did not do that)were people one would like to have met-I loved getting a picture of how Cambridge, Boston and Harvard were then as well as how a large, lively, eccentric and intellectual bunch of people lived their lives-- The drawings were fun, too!--A good old fashioned memoir which shines a positive light on its subject(s)!